Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.

Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise.

For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.

By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of fraud. Nor is this natural right among the first which is taken into the hands of regular government after it is instituted. It was long retained by our ancestors. It was a part of their common law, laid down in their books, recognized by all the authorities, and regulated as to circumstances of practice.

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.